How to Convert WMV to MP4 or Vice Versa

Use Free WMV Converter to convert WMV to MP4 or MP4 to WMV.
The freeware converts 500+ various video file formats with ease. Large HD and ultra HD files are supported as well. Fast conversion speed of WMV files (WMV to MP4, MP4 to WMV, etc.) makes Freemake the best WMV converter since 2010.

Learn how to convert WMV to MP4 or MP4 to WMV:

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Download free WMV Converter

If you need to convert WMV to MP4 or to convert MP4 to WMV, download and install Freemake WMV MP4 Converter. It’s the best Windows tool that will easily change WMV to MP4 or vice versa. The software is free and can be installed on any Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 computer.

You won’t face any ads during the installation process. You can simply click the “Next” button all the time. If you want, you can choose to install a quick-launch and a desktop icon on the Freemake freeware.

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Add WMV or MP4 video files

Launch the Freemake software and prepare your MP4 or WMV videos. If you have many of them, you can collect the video files in one folder, select them all and drag-n-drop into the WMV MP4 Converter. To add one MP4 or one WMV video, click the “+Video” button or File – Add video.

Your video files can be over 100 MB, over 1GB or even over 10 GB of size. It doesn't matter. You can add files of any length, dimension, and size.
Please note that all your videos will be converted to the same format. It means that you can’t add all your videos for MP4 conversion and WMV conversion at the same time.

At 1st, add all your MP4 videos and convert them to WMV. Then convert all WMV videos to MP4.

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Click “to MP4” or “to WMV”

Select a format for your video files. For an MP4 video that you want to change to WMV, click the "to WMV" option."

For WMV videos that you plan to convert from WMV to MP4, select the “to MP4” button respectively.

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Set final video parameters

In a new window with settings, choose video quality. There are multiple options both for MP4 and WMV video files. If you have HD files, you can convert them to HD quality or a medium one depending on your scope.

Each ready quality profile comes with a preset video codec, frame rate, bitrate, frame size, and so on. You can leave them as is or change to the ones you need. To do it, clock the blue cog-wheel button under the preset choice.

For MP4 videos if you plan to upload them on your web-page for online viewing, select the “Embed video on a website” option before running the converting process. Free MP4 WMV Converter program will generate an HTML-code. Copy it and paste where you want it to be on your webpage. Don’t forget to transfer a ready video to your hosting.

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Convert WMV to MP4 or MP4 to WMV

Now select where you want to save your new WMV or MP4 videos. You can set a local drive folder, a USB device or a cloud account folder.

When everything is ready, click the “Convert” button to save WMV as an MP4 or transform MP4 to WMV.

To say even more:

How to share WMV format files with WhatsApp?

WhatsApp is a popular messenger that you can use to exchange text messages, pics and videos with your mates in a safe way. Unfortunately, the app supports only video in MP4 (H264 + AAC). So to send a video via WhatsApp, you need to convert it to MP4, choose H264 as a video codec and AAC as an audio one. The best way to do it is to follow the steps above. One more thing to do here is to set a size limitation for your MP4 video. WhatsApp will barely send a huge file. The recent WhatsApp video limit is 16 MB. Before running the conversion, click the weight sign in Freemake and set 16 MB for the video. Then click “Convert” to encode and compress WMV video.

How to play WMV files on MAC?

WMV is a format developed by Microsoft. It means that all Windows computers have a built-in media player (Windows Media Player and Windows Media center) to playback WMV files. While Mac laptops standard format is MOV. So to play WMV files on Mac, you will need to either convert them to a Mac supported format (MP4, MOV) or to download VLC player. This is a free utility that supports the majority of modern audio and video extensions.